Community-level Sports Group Participation and Older Individuals' Depressive Symptoms

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Taishi TsujiKatsunori Kondo

Abstract

Community-level group participation is a structural aspect of social capital that may have a contextual influence on an individual's health. Herein, we sought to investigate a contextual relationship between community-level prevalence of sports group participation and depressive symptoms in older individuals. We used data from the 2010 Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a population-based, cross-sectional study of individuals 65 yr or older without long-term care needs in Japan. Overall, 74,681 participants in 516 communities were analyzed. Depressive symptoms were diagnosed as a 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale score of ≥5. Participation in a sports group 1 d·month or more often was defined as "participation." For this study, we applied two-level multilevel Poisson regression analysis stratified by sex, calculated prevalence ratios (PR), and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Overall, 17,420 individuals (23.3%) had depressive symptoms, and 16,915 (22.6%) participated in a sports group. Higher prevalence of community-level sports group participation had a statistically significant relationship with a lower likelihood of depressive symptoms (male: PR, 0.89 (95% CI, 0.85-0.92); female: PR, 0.96 (95% CI, 0.92-0.99), estimated by...Continue Reading

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Nov 24, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Daichi OkabeKatsunori Kondo
Mar 15, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Satoko FujiharaKatsunori Kondo
Jun 18, 2019·Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise·Taishi TsujiKatsunori Kondo
Dec 11, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Tsuneo NakamuraKatsunori Kondo
Jun 12, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Ryota WatanabeTokunori Takeda
Jan 14, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Megumi NishidaKatsunori Kondo
Jan 14, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Taishi TsujiKatsunori Kondo
Aug 31, 2021·Journal of Transcultural Nursing : Official Journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society·Yasuko IrieYu Fujimoto

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